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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
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Subject: Re: the end of 18 bits, The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 07:30:26 -0500
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John Levine wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

> <snip>
>
> The PDP-8 hung on because they were used in a embedded applications,
> like the 680 TTY controler and a very sucessful newspaper typesetting
> system.  The PDP-10 was beloved in academia particularly once DEC
> turned Tenex into TOPS-20.

My high-school had a PDP-8E "Edusystem", which a few of us kids got to play
with.

In grad school I got introduced to the PDP-11, UNIX, C, and <cough>
TECO.

Then MS/PC-DOS :-(

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